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Obituary. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pbarm, 
I       April,  1891. 
several  sections  in  the  South  that  it  will  be  well  attended  from  that  part  of  the 
country;  and  while  the  various  states  from  which  members  are  usually  present  at 
the  meetings  will  be  well  represented,  we  have  also  information  of  projected 
participation  in  the  proceedings  from  localities  from  which  heretofore  delegates 
and  members  could  not  be  present. 
OBITUARY. 
Charles  Christian  August  Spannagel  died  suddenly  at  his  residence  in  Phila- 
delphia on  the  morning  of  March  23.  He  was  born  at  Vlotho,  Westphalia, 
November  16,  1S39,  as  the  son  of  Assistant  Judge  C.  A.  Spannagel,  and  received 
his  first  elementary  education  in  a  private  school.  When  in  1850  the  father 
became  Director  of  the  District  Court,  at  Siegen,  Westphalia,  Charles  entered 
the  schools  in  that  city  until  in  March.  1857,  he  commenced  his  apprenticeship  in 
pharmacy  with  W.  Ricke,  Apothecary  in  Oeynhausen,  until  September,  i860 
Subsequently  he  served  as  assistant  in  several  pharmacies,  and  during  1863-64 
as  military  pharmacist  in  the  House  of  Invalids  in  Berlin,  at  the  close  of  which 
service  he  continued  his  studies  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  where  Professors 
Berg  and  Braun  were  his  instructors  in  botany  and  pharmacognosy,  Dove  in 
physics,  and  Schneider,  Bammelsberg  and  Sonnenschein  in  different  branches 
of  chemistry.  In  December,  1865,  he  graduated,  passing  the  state's  examina- 
tion with  the  grade  "very  good.''  During  the  Austrian-Prussian  war,  in  1866, 
he  acted  as  field  apothecary.  He  first  came  to  the  United  States  in  1869  ;  but  his 
military  service  not  having  been  completed  at  the  beginning  of  the  Franco- 
German  war  in  1870,  he  returned  to  his  native  country,  and  was  attached  as 
field  apothecary  first  to  the  14th  army  corps,  and  subsequently  to  the  second 
field  hospital  of  the  third  army  corps,  receiving  several  medals  of  honor  for 
faithful  service.  After  the  close  of  the  war  in  1871  he  returned  to  Philadelphia, 
and  soon  after  entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  G.  Radefeld  in  purchasing  the 
store  1607  Ridge  Avenue.  His  partner  dying  in  the  following  year,  he  con- 
ducted the  business  on  his  own  account  until  the  time  of  his  death,  maintaining 
for  himself  a  well-deserved  reputation  for  integrity  and  reliability.  For  a 
number  of  years  his  health  was  impaired  from  a  complication  of  diseases  ;  cal- 
cification of  the  cardiac  valves  terminated  his  life  unexpectedly  after  a  brief 
illness.  The  deceased  was  never  married  ;  his  nearest  relatives,  the  aged 
parents  and  his  brothers,  reside  in  Germany.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  and  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation. 
Professor  Herod  D.  Garrison,  JI.D.,  died  in  Chicago,  February  23,  of 
Bright's  disease,  in  the  fifty-eighth  year  of  his  life.  He  was  born  in  Dearborn 
County,  Indiana,  was  educated  at  the  Marietta  College,  Ohio,  and  studied  medi- 
cine in  Cincinnati.  Subsequently,  he  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Chi- 
cago, the  store  being  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  in  1871.  For  a  few  years  he 
held  the  chair  of  materia  medica  in  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,  when  in 
1878  he  went  to  Europe,  having  been  appointed  honorary  commissioner  to  the 
Paris  exposition.  After  his  return  he  was  again  called  to  one  of  the  chairs  in 
the  college  named  before,  teaching  plysics  and  chemistry  until  he  resigned 
last  summer.  At  various  times  he  had  also  been  connected  with  other  institu- 
tions as  lecturer  on  chemistry.  A  widow  and  three  children,  the  son  being  a 
physician,  survive  him. 
